News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
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oeleu 10 Oe IN deep reueCuOn on Tue
morning of her wedding day. One of
her bridesmaids observed her in this
brown study and inquired the subject
of her meditations. II was think
ing" she replied which of my old
beaux | would marry in case should
be a widow
1t is said that Bangor man in a
logging crew, on the way out of the
woods, was made sick in a singular
way. The crews provisions gave out
and they were reduced to eating
cracked corn. The man drank lot
of water, the corn swelled and he
nearly died before the doctor reached
him.
A gentleman went home a few even
ings ago and casually remarked as he
hung up his hat: 81 see women are
sold at actual value in Indianapolis
A wife was bought there this week for
five cents" "Well l know woman,
about the time l was married, VINO
was sold for nothing" replied MS
wife. Then the man put on his hat
and went out.
GLOW are the Easter preparations
getting along?" inquired devoted
Sunday School Superintendent of one
of his teachers "Oh, beautifully.
There will be some lovely costumes IN
church, and the bonnets and hats, OH
my J" "You don't understand. l
mean Easter entertainment" "Why,
of course. How stupid of me.
think my class will be ablgto read a
few selections from Scriptnyt BY sthat
time"
'"Mamma, didn't you tell lne to dc
just what baby wanted me to-" asked
a little Cass avenue boy who had beer
left in charge Of his baby brother, as
reported by the Detroit Tribune
Eyes my DEAR" replied his mother
who had just come. ''Well baby
wanted me to eat up all the sponge
cake, and now Flo's mad, becaus,
MI. Browns coming to tea anC
there amt no cake" But baby can
eat cake. "No, but it amused him tC
see me eat it,"
A Greensborough, Md, farmer
desiring to raise superior potatoe:
barreled up his stock on hand anC
sent it to a Baltimore commission
merchant, receiving good price fol
the tubers. While packing the pota
toes he lost his spectacles and could mo-
find them. Shortly after he wrote to a
Baltimore dealer to send him severa
barrels Of fine seed potatoes, as he
wanted to change the seed. The pota
toes came, and the farmer was busy
cutting them for planting, when he
came across his lost spectacles in {
barrel of the Northern (?) seed.
The latest fashionable craze ir
Paris is of a CHASTITY character, anc
designed as travesty upon Lent i
is a mourning dinner. Twelve young
ladies, dressed in deepest mourning
and heavily yelled, compose the party
The dining room is draped in black
silver wreaths and tombstones take
the place of pictures. The chairs are
shaped like collins set on end anC
hung with immortelles. Knives anC
forks have bones for handles, and tho
is served IN skulls. The
dinner is eaten in silence to slow mu
sic. The irreverent farce is justly de
nounced from the pulpit as immora
and wicked.
Not all postmasters enjoythe service
of Uncle Sam. Here is a letter from
one of them to Postmaster-G Genera
Villas, which displays a passionate
yearning for relase that few office
holders can understand: 4 when does
my sentence expire Twice jAave L re-
signed, but the felon might Is well try
to shake off his letters, as Silent con.
tempt has been the fate of ny epistles
Oh please, good mister postmaster.
general, let me go and promise never
to do so again. l will never sign an.
other petition to start post-of1ice On
the cross roads, if my name figures as
its master. Besides, l am an offensive
partisan and really should be fired.
made compaign speeches and am liable
to do so again. [ shall watch the in
coming mails with eager eye, hoping
against hope that my pardon may
come and set me Free" EP. M.
The Philadelphia Record relates
that a woman who went to the Jeffer-
son Medical College to have tumor
removed from her arm, refused TO have
ether administered, or even to take a
glass of wine or brandy, saying that
she would bear the operation. The
doctors decided to take her at her
word and go ahead. They barred her
arm to the shoulder, laid her on her
side and then buried the knife in the
flesh, cut big cash over six inches
in length, pulled the bleeding pieces
apart, removed the tumor,. scraped
the bone and then sewed the parts
together. During all this time the
patient never moved. Not a cry es-
capped her, and as she gritted her teeth
her face became as white as sheet.
After the operation DR.. Brinton, turn
ing to the 600 students, said: There
is not a man among you who could
have stood that operation as did this
woman"
A resident of another city than Bos-
ton, who, is a dentist, writes pro-
fessionally, says that nothing is supe-
rior to Boston brown bread for bone
and tooth building, and that baked
beans should be on the table, hot or
cold, at least three times a week, on
account of their supply of lime salts.
A dispatch from Utica, N. Y, of
March 81, states that Express Mes
senger Lake, on train Sc on the West
Shore, which arrived at New York
at LIS a. M, was lying in tie car
bleeding furious!y from q woetld in
his shoulder. While the tran was
making the run between Clark's Mills
and Utica, which only occupies seven
minutes, a man entered the Car and
ordered the messenger to throw up
his hands. The latter did not at once
comprehend him, and the robber shot
him. He then gagged and bound
him and rlfed the safe, securing be-
tween $500 and $500. The local ex-
pressman could not open the door